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• Yellowjackets - I Don’t Belong Here.

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x05 Blood Hive.The situation of the stranded in the wilderness is a juxtaposition of sorts: on the one hand, there is endless space to explore... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Bad Behaviour

  

  It seems like one of those surprising pop-cultural coincidences that Bad Behaviour, a four-part adaptation of Rebecca Starford’s memoir of surviving a year on... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – What Really Happened out There?

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x04 Bear Down.In a way, Yellowjackets is like a psychological study of how people become who they are. It’s a reconstruction on screen throughou... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – We Think We Know What We’re Doing but Really We Have No Clue.

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x03 The Dollhouse.Three days have past and there are no signs of a rescue team arriving, so the stranded now have to make a decision: after... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets - You Just Seem Like Someone Who Doesn’t Play by the Rules.

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x02 F Sharp.If you think about some of the skills required to survive an emergency situation in the wilderness, you’d have high hopes for this... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Yellowjackets – Buzz Buzz Buzz Buzz.

  

  Yellowjackets: 1x01 Pilot. “So what do you think really happened down there?”In 1996, a plane carrying a high school soccer team, their coaches and support... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Goodbye the Dark Days, Bets Are Down

  

  Kawase Hasui - Yamayuriblack belt eagle scout | my blood runs through this land. yeah yeah yeahs | wolf. black belt eagle scout | it's enough (sleater-kinney... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Black Belt Eagle Scout - My Blood Runs Through This Land (on The Land, the Water, the Sky)Waking up when the sun is dark, IWant to see the peaceful light, butI... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Mindhunter

  

  It’s interesting to consider Mindhunter in the context of David Fincher’s other films about serial killers, 1995’s fictional Se7en, in which the killer recreate... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: Stephanie Foo: What My Bones Know. Annalee Newitz: Four Lost Cities. Peter Frankopan: The New Silk Roads. A New History of the World.Rick Morton: M... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Menu

  

  In the documentary series Chef’s Table, each episode portrays a singular chef. The best episodes travel far, and provide insight into how history, culture and... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Emily the Criminal

  

  Imagine a breathless thriller that is structured around four job interviews. The first one is a con – the interviewer has made up his mind about Aubrey Plaza’s... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Ken McGoogan: Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage.Buddy Levy: Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of th... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  Best new show:A League of Their OwnThis show is so joyful, so clearly a work of love by everyone involved - how amazing is it to see Abbi Jacobson go from... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  The Night House (2020, David Bruckner)Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)Master (2022, Mariama Diallo)Candyman (2021, Nin... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  Burial / AntidawnCat Power / CoversBig Thief / Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In YouTrentemøller / MemoriaAlice Glass / Prey//IVYumi Zouma / Present... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Benedetta

  

  I think it’s a disservice to think of Paul Verhoeven’s film Benedetta as “loosely based” on Judith C. Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Picnic at Hanging Rock

  

  At the beginning of the six-episode adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock, a 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Natalie Dormer’s Mrs Appleyard is inspecting an estate o... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Non-Fiction: Barbara F. Walters: How Civil War Starts and How to Stop Them. Michelle Tea: Valencia.Jeanna Kadlec: Heretic. Fiction: Rebecca Netley: The... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Tár

  

  In the beginning of the film (fictional) composer/conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is on stage being interviewed by (actual) New Yorker journalist Adam... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2022 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO